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San Diego Padres not living up to World Series aspirations

“If he’s a good hitter how come he doesn’t hit good?” One of my favorite lines from Moneyball, and it applies a bit to the San Diego Padres so far […]

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San Diego Padres not living up to World Series aspirations

“If he’s a good hitter how come he doesn’t hit good?” One of my favorite lines from Moneyball, and it applies a bit to the San Diego Padres so far […]

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Ryan Reynolds, Rob McElhenney’s Wrexham on verge of promotion

It’s Always Sunny in WrexhamPhoto: AP As season one of FX’s Welcome to Wrexham concluded, we saw the Welsh football club narrowly miss out on a promotion to the top […]

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Will Jacob deGrom be the ace the Texas Rangers get right?

Has there been a closer franchise to winning a World Series ever that never reached the pinnacle than the Texas Rangers? The Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex’s Major League Baseball team had […]

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MLB offseason’s biggest winners and losers

Image: Getty Images It wouldn’t have taken much for the Dodgers to retain their place as the bona fide best team in the National League West. After all, they’d won […]

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NBA to give out award for best regular season record.

Image: Getty Images It’s bad enough that there have been 16 NBA playoff spots since 1984. At that time there were only 23 teams in the league. It’s 2022, and […]

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Philadelphia Phillies give Trea Turner 11-year, $300M deal

Trea Turner is headed for Philly.Image: Getty Images Dave Dombrowski and the Philadelphia Phillies apparently don’t understand the new atmosphere of baseball. The expanded playoffs mean, or were supposed to […]

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Should MLB do away with AL awards and NL awards?

Illustration: Getty Images It may be time to finally eliminate the charades known as the American and National League. Just tell it to the Judge — Aaron Judge. The Yankee […]

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